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  1. November 26th, 2005, 12:05 PM #1
    Broomiebar
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    The connection was refused when attempting to contact

    Hi,
    Can anybody get access to www.gdcanada.com or www.gd.com
    I've been trying for days using Explorer 5 and Firefox but the
    browser keeps poping a message after a 10 seconds that says
    connection was refused.

    and I've tried all the wrong things ...with firewall ...with no firewall
    still no chance.

    Cheers,
    B.B
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  2. November 26th, 2005, 12:09 PM #2
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    Usually when the connection is "refused" it means that there is a misconfiguration at the other end that has the port open but it can't serve anything so it ends up dropping the connection causing your browser/ftp client or whatever to show that message.
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  3. November 26th, 2005, 12:51 PM #3
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    Hi,

    I just got into both sites from the UK..................VERY FAST response.................maybe they were changing servers or something?

    They are probably not to worried about uptime as I doubt if they do much business via e-commerce?
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  4. November 26th, 2005, 01:47 PM #4
    Broomiebar
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    Wink

    Finally I managed to get there

    but only when I changed my IP and used a public IP through poxy (privoxy...)
    However, It's still a mystery about why and if they are blocking my IP address.

    I'm going to complain about this

    Cherrs,
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  6. November 26th, 2005, 01:57 PM #5
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    Hi BB

    Using your "normal" internet connection method, see if you can get to this site:

    http://www.baesystems.com/

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  7. November 26th, 2005, 09:56 PM #6
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    Smile


    Using your "normal" internet connection method, see if you can get to this site:

    http://www.baesystems.com/
    Hey Nihil,

    I just visited the above site without problems, seems that only General Dynamics
    don't like me.
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